Denman College Warden
[By SUSAN VAUGHAN] LONDON. The new warden of the Women’s Institutes' Denman College at Marcham, Berkshire, is Miss Cicely McCall. A Norfolk Justice of the Peace, she has been an author, a health-worker, and a headmistress, and has travelled in many parts of the world. Opened in 1948, Denman College provides short courses on a wide variety of subjects ranging from cookery to agriculture, from handicrafts to world affairs. It is open to nearly 500.000 women who are members of Women’s Institutes in Britain.
Miss McCall, now doing duty as a psychiatric social worker, has been head of an aporoved school, housemistress at Holloway Prison and at a borstal institution for girls. During the war. she worked with the Women’s Institutes as education organiser. She has written two books—one about Women’s Institutes: another, called “They Always Come Back,” about women prisoner!.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28251, 12 April 1957, Page 2
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